YouTube Packaging (Title + Thumbnail)

Turns a video idea into one locked title + 3 distinct thumbnail bets built for YouTube's native A/B/C thumbnail test, plus one value-forward description — then renders the three thumbnails as real images with Nano Banana Pro.

The whole skill optimizes for one number: CTR (click-through rate). It's the metric YouTube Studio reports per thumbnail, and the only one that isolates packaging from topic and algorithm.

Where these rules come from, and what to do about it

The rules below are not generic YouTube advice — they were derived from Studio CTR data across 20 long-form videos on a real ~1M-subscriber beginner/AI channel, read in CTR order. That dataset isn't shipped (it's another channel's numbers, and its absolutes wouldn't transfer). The patterns do transfer, and they're a much better prior than guessing.

But an inherited rule is a bet, not a fact — about YOUR audience. So: